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To Mary Milroy From RH Milroy Sept 4 1862

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Head Quarters Milroys Brigade
10 Miles West of Washington City D.C.
Sept 4th, 1862

My Dear Mary,

I avail myself of the first
leisure moment to let you hear from me
after some weeks of silence during all
of which time I have been most intensely
occupied—most of the time—night and day
marching—countermarching—skirmishing
and fighting-some days—most desperately
as you will have learned by the papers
Sigels Corps has done the greater part
of the fighting and my Brigade has all the
time the advance of Sigels corps and
of course I was in the hottest furnace of
the fighting first and last all the time when
death destruction reigned around and being
all the time on horseback and most of the time
in front, I have been fired at thousands of times and
my having escaped so far untouched is miraculous
and providential.

I have got so used to the hissing of
cannon and musket ball around me that they fail to
excite my interest unless some of my boys are struck
by them. My horse, too, a fine bay, escaped untouched
with the terrible fight of Saturday last when he
recd. A ball to the side of his head. he is still
living but will probably die as his head is so swollen
he cannot eat – He is the 3rd horse I have had
since Jasper was shot.

One is nearly dead with
distemper and I have but one fit for service – a
fine gray captured by my boys from a Majr on
Jackson’s staff at the battle of Cheat Mountain
but he is nearly run down by the constant hard
riding I have to do and I must buy another soon.

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Head Quarters Milroys Brigade
10 Miles West of Washington City D.C.
Sept 4th, 1862

My Dear Mary,

I avail myself of the first
leisure moment to let you hear from me
after some weeks of silence during all
of which time I have been most intensely
occupied—most of the time—night and day
marching—countermarching—skirmishing
and fighting-some days—most desperately
as you will have learned by the papers
Sigels Corps has done the greater part
of the fighting and my Brigade has all the
time the advance of Sigels corps and
of course I was in the hottest furnace of
the fighting first and last all the time when
death destruction reigned around and being
all the time on horseback and most of the time
in front, I have been fired at thousands of times and
my having escaped so far untouched is miraculous
and providential.

I have got so used to the hissing of
cannon and musket ball around me that they fail to
excite my interest unless some of my boys are struck
by them. My horse, too, a fine bay, escaped untouched
with the terrible fight of Saturday last when he
recd. A ball to the side of his head. he is still
living but will probably die as his head is so swollen
he cannot eat – He is the 3rd horse I have had
since Jasper was shot.

One is nearly dead with
distemper and I have but one fit for service – a
fine gray captured by my boys from a Majr on
Jackson’s staff at the battle of Cheat Mountain
but he is nearly run down by the constant hard
riding I have to do and I must buy another soon.

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This item is owned by the Jasper County Public Library. Permission to publish or reproduce this item is required and must be obtained from the Director of the Jasper County Public Library, Rensselaer, Indiana. Please visit www.myjcpl.org for more information.